Hardin-Simmons University vs. Texas Wesleyan College

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20050394

Description

The 1941 college football season is opening at Farrington Field in Fort Worth, Texas. The Texas Wesleyan Rams are hosting the visiting Hardin-Simmons Cowboys. Attending the game, left to right, are Marion B. McClure, Mrs. Gus Miller, and Sheriff Will Watson. Mr. McClure is the director of the Hardin-Simmons band. He is dressed in a cowboy hat, wireless eyeglasses, button-up shirt, bandanna, an embossed leather belt and trousers with pockets that snap or button. Mrs. Miller is the wife of T. W. C. coach Gus Miller. She is wearing a felt shaped hat, Peter Pan collared blouse under a fitted brocade zip-front jacket and a stylized peacock broach at her neckline, and a skirt. She is holding a pair of black gloves and carrying a black handbag and wearing rimless eyeglasses. Sheriff Watson is the sheriff of Abilene, Texas. He is wearing a ten gallon hat, a button-up shirt embroidered with his name, a badge, a pendant, trousers, an embossed leather belt with silver fittings and an embossed leather gun holster at his hip. The pistol has a pearl handle with an inset star.

Archival Date

1941-09-20

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-1413

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

McClure, Marion B.; Miller, Gus (Mrs.); Watson, Will (Sheriff); Texas Wesleyan Rams (Football Team); Hardin-Simmons University; Hardin-Simmons Cowboys; Football; Farrington Field (Fort Worth, Tex.); Firearms; Police Officers